Can one person save the world?  Jim Ziolkowski thinks so and he tells us how in his new book,  Walk in Their Shoes:  how one person can save the world.  Jim left a lucrative career in finance to work in developing countries and poor US neighborhoods, building schools and revitalizing communities.  Today he directs BuildOn, which works in 6 countries building schools and in 73 high schools in the US, A remarkable  94% of children who go through its US programs graduate from high school and go on to college.   Dave Johnson, Senior Fellow at the Campaign for America's Future and a Fairness Radio commentator from the very beginning, joins us for the last time for a discussion of a corporate tax idea that solves a lot of problems - getting rid of the foreign tax deferment.  Don't know what that is?  Dave will explain it at 2:30 pm ET..  Today is the last broadcAst of Fairness Radio, the M-TH political talk show.  But Music Friday, the Friday show of Fairness Radio, will remain at its time 11 am PT/2 pm ET and interview musicians  and film directors who document music and  musicians.

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Final show: Dave Johnson, Jim Ziolkowski

Middle East expert and former State Department official Ari Ratner joins us today to help us understand what is going on in the region today and where it is going.  Is there there a positive outcome in Syria for the US?  What should the President do about the gas attack, if anything?  Will the military government replicate the Mubarak regime in Egypt and how will that affect the US?  The Egyptian people?  Israel?   Will Islamists in the Sinai attack Israel and will Israel fight back instead of holding its fire like it did during the Iraq war?    Call in and ask Ari ratner your questions.  2:05 pm ET. A new concept in the opinion-driven world of talk radio, Fairness Radio is a daily one-hour on-line and on-air radio show featuring liberal Patrick O'Heffernan interviewing national guests from across the political spectrum.  Patrick talks with everyone from conservative Senator Jim DeMint to former Democratic Party Chairman Governor Howard Dean to explore news, politics and culture from all sides in a civil conversation that focuses on idea, not gotcha’s.  With an international team experts from all sides of the political spectrum Fairness Radio covers the events of the world like no one else.

Syria war? Egypt collapse? Ari Ratner joins us.

Kris Angelis' new album The Left Atrium is a triumph of art and feeling.  Kris has been a guest on our Music Friday editon, but this week she is in the Boston Studio so we are going to talk with her live and have her play some tunes. A new concept in the opinion-driven world of talk radio, Fairness Radio is a daily one-hour on-line and on-air radio show featuring liberal Patrick O'Heffernan interviewing national guests from across the political spectrum.  Patrick talks with everyone from conservative Senator Jim DeMint to former Democratic Party Chairman Governor Howard Dean to explore news, politics and culture from all sides in a civil conversation that focuses on idea, not gotcha’s.  With an international team experts from all sides of the political spectrum Fairness Radio covers the events of the world like no one else.

Kris Angelis, singer/songwriter on tour

Jackie Salit, Fairness Radio contributor and President of independentvoting.com reports on a federal court judge’s ruling that the Greenville Republican Party did not have standing to sue to close the South Carolina primaries.  IndependentVoting.org and a coalition of defendant/intervenors fought back the attempt to disenfranchise independents.  But what about the other voter suppression laws around the country? Are independents losing?  We will ask., .A new concept in the opinion-driven world of talk radio, Fairness Radio is a daily one-hour on-line and on-air radio show featuring liberal Patrick O'Heffernan interviewing national guests from across the political spectrum.  Patrick talks with everyone from conservative Senator Jim DeMint to former Democratic Party Chairman Governor Howard Dean to explore news, politics and culture from all sides in a civil conversation that focuses on idea, not gotcha’s.  With an international team experts from all sides of the political spectrum Fairness Radio covers the events of the world like no one else.

Jackie Salit: independent vote victory in S.Carolina

Alex Nowrasteh, the immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity proposes  a solution to the argument against immigration reform over whether or not it costs taxpayers to support undocumented aliens: wall off welfare to aliens, not the border.  They can come into the country, but they can't access its benefits.  What do you think? Segment 1.(we are off today;  this is a classic Fairness Radio from a week ago - and still relevant) A new concept in the opinion-driven world of talk radio, Fairness Radio is a daily one-hour on-line and on-air radio show featuring liberal Patrick O'Heffernan interviewing national guests from across the political spectrum.  Patrick talks with everyone from conservative Senator Jim DeMint to former Democratic Party Chairman Governor Howard Dean to explore news, politics and culture from all sides in a civil conversation that focuses on idea, not gotcha’s.  With an international team experts from all sides of the political spectrum Fairness Radio covers the events of the world like no one else.

Wall off benefits, not the border: Alex Nowrasteh, CATO

Fairness Radio is off teh air. I am now hosting Music Friday at the same time, 11 am PT, every Friday. tune in for interviews with musicians, music reviews and interviews with film directors who make films about music.

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